Mobile OS u should know

A mobile operating system(mobile OS) , It is mobile software platform like in PC , The importance of mobile devices has increased  dramatically and thus makes competition amongst software giants such as Google, Microsoft, and Apple .

This is the Market covered by Mobile OS
Mobile Os that can be found on smartphones, mobile OS-powered tablet computers, and other mobile devices include  

•  Google's Android, 
•  Apple's iOS, 
•  RIM's BlackBerry OS, 
•  Microsoft's Windows Phone, 
•  Linux, 
•  HP's webOS, 
• Samsung's Bada, and
• Nokia's MeeGo among many others. 

Android, Bada, Maemo and webOS are built of Linux, and iOS is using a different base OSthat is  BSD and NeXTSTEP operating systems, which are all related to Unix.

RIP webOS: 
 
              Palm in January 2009  introduced Web OS and  by August 18, 2011, HP announced that it would stop production of all webOS related devices to concentrate on PC and Laptop sections . HP is presently considering licensing webOS software to other manufacturers for their devices .

Software platforms :

Android from Google Inc.  (open source, Apache) : 

                                     A small startup company  developed Android that was purchased by Google Inc., and Google continues to update the software with major impact in the market .  2009 to 2010, Android's worldwide market share rose 850% from 1.8% to 17.2%.

BlackBerry OS from RIM :

                                   This OS is focused on easy operation and was originally designed for business. It recently made many improvements to get use of third party app also . RIM's future tactics will focus on the newly acquired QNX , The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet running  QNX and by 2012.expecting its first QNX smartphones .

iOS from Apple Inc.:

                                    The Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Apple TV all use an operating system called iOS, (i device OS) which is derived from Mac OS X . The user interface of iOS simple and is based on the concept of direct manipulation, using multi-touch gestures which makes a huge impact in market in 2007 when iphone 2g launched and since then its all about " i ". Interface control elements consist of sliders, switches, and buttons . Because of this OS the Mobile OS war has been started .

Windows Phone from Microsoft :

                                   On the Demand of Customers and Smartphone increases Microsoft unveiled its next-generation mobile OS on February 15th, 2010, Windows Phone 7. Totally they came up with a new  UI in new mobile OS includes a  inspired by Microsoft's "Metro Design Language" . which  includes full integration of all Microsoft services such as Windows Live, Zune, Xbox Live and Bing search engine , but also integrates with other services such as Twitter , Facebook and Google accounts . Microsoft are trying to make a new impact so they had no other option to hold with these top Smart phone market holders so they come up with a new UI , That is different from all the other OS .